Merchant of Venice
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"Don't the Jews have eyes?" The only tragedy among the four comedies, Shakespeare's work ahead of his time. "The Merchant of Venice" is a classic comedy written by Shakespeare between 1596 and 1599. It is a key work in his transition from a happy comedy to a problem drama. The play revolves around the Venetian businessman Antonio who, in order to help his friend borrow money from the Jewish moneylender Shylock, made a contract of "cutting a pound of flesh overdue" but unexpectedly went bankrupt. About love, friendship, and more about religious conflicts, racial discrimination and economic ethics in European society in the sixteenth century. Shylock's famous soliloquy "Have the Jews no eyes?" Has transcended the image of a villain and has become a timeless classic that has been constantly reinterpreted on the global stage.
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